Will Butler-Adams had a difficult first day at Brompton Bicycle.
The recently graduated mechanical engineering student was being shown round the folding-bike company’s west London factory in 2002 when his guide, and the two-wheeled machine’s creator, Andrew Ritchie, wandered off.
Mr Butler-Adams, then an ambitious 28-year-old project manager, found himself hemmed in by stacks of unassembled parts and pallets, wondering why he had come to work at what appeared to be a badly run business.
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